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BOX 21, 31-39, 50 |
Project Files, 1936-1985
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This series encompasses Suesse’s produced and unproduced plays and musicals, as
well as a television show, concerts, and compositions dating from 1936 to 1985.
Items include scripts, notes, lead sheets, lyric sheets, programs, correspondence,
clippings, and holograph music. The series contains a significant amount of
materials related to The Seven Year Itch (1952),
including numerous sketches for Suesse’s incidental music. Other significant
productions include, among others, her composition Young Man
with a Harp, which Casper Reardon premiered with the Philadelphia
Orchestra in 1939; Come Play With Me (1959), a
musical for which Suesse wrote the music and lyrics; and her concert at Carnegie
Hall in 1974. Also included here are souvenir programs from Billy Rose’s revues,
for which Suesse composed music during the 1930s and 1940s, such as Aquacade, Casa Mañana,
Diamond Horseshoes, and Venus on the Halfshell. These materials lend insight into Suesse’s
lesser-known works, including Fly Away Home, Josephine, Length of Our
Days, Mister Sycamore, and Nemesis. |
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Arranged alphabetically by title. |
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BOX-FOLDER 31/6-7 |
Another April, 1951, 1979, and undated
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Scripts; correspondence; notes |
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The Ascanians
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Starbright
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BOX-FOLDER 31/8 |
Autumn Rose, undated
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Script |
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BOX-FOLDER 31/9 to 32/1 |
The Bentleys, undated
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Scripts; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 50/1-8 |
Billy Rose Revues, 1936-1949 and undated
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Souvenir programs; clippings; photograph of Casa Mañana (1937) |
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Contents:
Aquacade; Casa
Mañana; Diamond Horseshoes; Frontier Fiesta; The Last
Frontier; The Toast of the Town; Venus on the Halfshell
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BOX-FOLDER 32/2 |
Bless Your Little Heart, undated
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Scripts; clippings |
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BOX-FOLDER 32/3-6 |
Carnegie Hall concert, 1974-1975
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Correspondence; publicity material; clippings;
programs; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 32/7 |
Circus Story, undated
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List of characters; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 21/7, 33/1-4 |
Come Play with Me, 1943, 1954-1959, and undated
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Holograph piano-vocal scores; holograph lead
sheets; sketches; lyric sheets; script (incomplete); clippings;
programs |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/5 |
Crazy with the Heat, 1940, 1951, 1990
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Lyric sheets; programs; clippings |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/6 |
Duet, undated
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Scripts |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/7 |
Father and His Grasshopper, undated
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Title page |
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BOX-FOLDER 33/8 to 34/1 |
Fly Away Home, 1958-1964 and undated
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Scripts (original and revised); holograph lead
sheets; correspondence; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 34/2 |
The Girl from Sardi's, undated
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Holograph lead sheets; lyric sheets;
correspondence; clippings; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 34/3 |
Isadora, undated
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Synopsis; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 34/4 |
It Takes All Kinds, undated
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Synopsis |
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BOX-FOLDER 34/5-8, 50/9 |
Josephine, 1984 and undated
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Script; notes; sketches; lyric sheets;
clippings |
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BOX-FOLDER 34/9 |
Keep Talking, undated
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Proposal for a television show |
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BOX-FOLDER 34/10 |
The Last Leaf, undated
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Synopsis |
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BOX-FOLDER 34/11-14 |
Length of Our Days, 1967-1968 and undated
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Scripts; holograph lead sheets; lyric sheets;
correspondence; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 35/1-3 |
Little White Lie, 1954 and undated
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Scripts (original and revised); notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 35/4-5 |
The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower, 1966 and undated
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Scripts; holograph lead sheets; lyric sheets;
correspondence; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 35/6 |
A Matter of Principles, undated
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Synopsis |
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BOX-FOLDER 35/7 |
Miscellaneous,
undated
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Holograph lead sheets; lists of song titles;
clippings; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 35/8 |
Miscellaneous songs, 1960-1963 and undated
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Lyric sheets; notes |
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Contents: Come Live with Me and Be My Love; Hurry
Home; I Know the Blues; I'll Get Him Yet; In Praise of Tourists; It's All in
the Name of Love; Neither Rain nor Snow; Someone to Come Home To; Summer Love;
That's What I'm Like Without You; The Weather in My Heart |
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BOX-FOLDER 35/9 to 36/3, 50/10 |
Mister Sycamore, 1937, 1941, 1961-1976, 1981-1987, and undated
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Script; holograph piano-vocal scores; holograph
lead sheets; sketches; lyric sheets; business papers; clippings;
notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 36/4 |
Mrs. Mooney, 1965 and undated
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Script; correspondence; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 36/5 to 37/1 |
Nemesis, 1984-1987 and undated
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Scripts; clippings; correspondence;
notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 37/2-5 |
Obsession, 1983-1985 and undated
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Scripts; lyric sheets; correspondence; clippings;
notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 37/6 |
The Secret of the Mountain, undated
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Synopsis |
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BOX-FOLDER 21/8, 37/7-11, 50/11 |
The Seven Year Itch, 1952-1955 and undated
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Script; holograph full score for clarinet, piano,
and strings; sketches; programs; clippings; correspondence; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 37/12 |
She Shall Have Music, 1965
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Synopsis |
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BOX-FOLDER 37/13 |
Stagestruck, undated
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Synopsis |
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BOX-FOLDER 38/1-2 |
Starbright, 1964-1965, 1985, and undated
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Synopsis; notes; clippings |
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BOX-FOLDER 38/3 |
Take a Note, undated
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Synopsis |
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BOX-FOLDER 38/4 |
Tallulah, Dahling!, undated
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Script |
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BOX-FOLDER 38/5-6 |
That Does It, 1943 and undated
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Script; synopsis; holograph lead sheets; lyric
sheets |
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BOX-FOLDER 38/7-9 |
This Changing World, 1985 and undated
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Scripts; correspondence |
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BOX-FOLDER 38/10-11 |
Tonight We Do It Without the Net, 1968-1978 and undated
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Script; holograph lead sheets; lyric sheets;
correspondence; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 38/12 |
Trilby, undated
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Script; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 38/13 to 39/1 |
The Voice of the Hyena, 1962-1973, 1984, and undated
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Scripts; correspondence |
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BOX-FOLDER 39/2 |
The Wedding Dress, 1984 and undated
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Synopsis; notes |
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BOX-FOLDER 39/3 |
Young Man with a Harp, 1939-1940, 1955, and undated
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Clippings; programs; photograph of Guy Frazier
Harrison; biography of Casper Reardon |
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BOX-FOLDER 39/4 |
Unidentified, 1978 and undated
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Synopses and notes for three productions; partial
script for one production |
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BOX 39-42 |
Correspondence, 1922-1987
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This series includes personal and professional correspondence, both typescript and
autograph, between Suesse and others. A substantial amount of letters to her
mother, Nina Quarrier, document her personal and professional life in New York
City as well as her trip abroad to study with Nadia Boulanger. A small number of
letters to and from her first husband Courtney Burr, second husband Charles Edwin
Delinks, step-father Robert Chase Stevens, uncle Arthur Quarrier, and grandmother
Sallie L. Hogan further document her family life.
The series also includes ample correspondence from her manager, Miriam Stern, that
documents the business aspect of Suesse's music career. Other letters provide a
snapshot of her vast network of prominent figures in the music, literary, and arts
scenes, including Tallulah Bankhead, George Bartieneff, Nadia Boulanger, Vera
Brodsky, Sammy Cahn, Samuel Chotzinoff, Virginia Faulkner, Michael Feinstein,
Leonard Feist, Frederick Fennell, Arthur Fiedler, William Gaxton, Ira Gershwin,
Oscar Hammerstein, Hildegard, Coral Potter, Ethel Bartlett Robertson, Jack
Robbins, Carlos Salzedo, Oscar Serlin, Hans Spialek, Kay Swift, and Emanuel
Vardi. |
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Arranged alphabetically by last name. |
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BOX-FOLDER 39/5 |
Allen, Steve, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/6 |
Bankhead, Talullah, 1968-1970?
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BOX-FOLDER 39/7 |
Bartenieff, George, 1984
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BOX-FOLDER 39/8 |
Boles, Lester, 1987
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BOX-FOLDER 39/9 |
Boulanger, Nadia, 1947-1950
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BOX-FOLDER 39/10 |
Brennen, Jim, undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/11 |
Brodsky, Vera,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/12 |
Burr, Courtney, 1984-1985
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BOX-FOLDER 39/13 |
Cahn, Sammy, 1987
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BOX-FOLDER 39/14 |
Chernow, Marlene, 1975
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BOX-FOLDER 39/15 |
Chotzinoff, Samuel, 1946
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BOX-FOLDER 39/16 |
Cohen, Aaron I., 1977
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BOX-FOLDER 39/17 |
Copelin, David, 1985
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BOX-FOLDER 40/23 |
Delinks, Charles Edwin,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/18 |
Douglass, Olive May?, 1978-1979
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BOX-FOLDER 39/19 |
Engel, Carl, 1942
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BOX-FOLDER 39/20 |
Faulkner, Virginia, 1947, 1974-1975, and undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/21 |
Feinstein, Michael, 1986-1987
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BOX-FOLDER 39/22 |
Feist, Leonard, 1942
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BOX-FOLDER 39/23 |
Fennell, Frederick, 1955-1957
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BOX-FOLDER 39/24 |
Fiedler, Arthur, 1975
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BOX-FOLDER 39/25 |
Flournoy, Mrs. L. S., 1926
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BOX-FOLDER 39/26 |
Gabrielle, Blanche, 1956
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BOX-FOLDER 39/27 |
Gaxton, William,
undated
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BOX-FOLDER 39/28 |
Gershwin, Ira, 1974
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BOX-FOLDER 39/29 |
Glover, David Carr, 1986
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BOX-FOLDER 39/30 |
Goossens, Eugene, 1943
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BOX-FOLDER 39/31 |
Green, Bill, 1986
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BOX-FOLDER 39/32 |
Greene, Luther,
undated
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